Vaccine Ingredients

May 2017 – While health officials recommend an ever increasing number of vaccines for babies and young children, vaccine ingredients and their potential to injure in the short or long-term are rarely discussed. When these complex biochemical substances are injected directly into the body, the risk of toxicity increases.

Mercury is a known neurotoxin, yet for decades it has been used as a vaccine preservative, and to some extent is still used in vaccine manufacturing with the result that trace amounts may remain in some vaccines which are not required to be disclosed by the manufacturer. Mercury in the form of the vaccine preservative thimerosal is still a component of some vaccines recommended for you and your children.

The type and contents of vaccines available for use in Canada can be found here. Note that Tm is the abbreviation used for thimerosal.

It’s well known that chemicals can interact with one another. There can be synergistic effects between chemicals as well as additive effects when combined with the many environmental toxins we are exposed to today. A prime example is the synergy between fluorides and heavy metals like aluminum which form complexes like aluminum fluoride which can travel to the brain and may be implicated in dementia.

Aluminum toxicity

Aluminum (Al) is toxic to all life forms but is used in many vaccines to boost immune response to vaccine antigens. A known neurotoxin, aluminum activates brain inflammation (excitotoxicity) is pro-inflammatory, interferes with gene expression, impacts memory, cognition, psychomotor control, damages the blood brain barrier, depresses mitochondrial function and induces allergy. Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines are linked to chronic autoimmune diseases in the published science.

A child in Canada receiving all government recommended vaccines can be injected with over 5,000 micrograms of aluminum in the first few years of life. An emerging body of scientific research is alerting us to the serious health risks associated with injecting aluminum compounds into the body during pregnancy (fetal life) and infancy, the most critical period of brain development.

Animal products in vaccines

Animal-derived products used in vaccine manufacture can include amino acids, glycerol, detergents, gelatin, enzymes. Cow’s milk is a source of amino acids, and sugars such as galactose. Other animal derivatives used in vaccine manufacture are cow skeletal muscle used to prepare broths used in certain media to make vaccines. “Many difficult to grow microorganisms and the cells that are used to propagate viruses require the addition of serum from blood to the growth media.”

Fetal cell lines used to manufacture live virus vaccines

Fetal cells used in the manufacture of some live virus vaccines raises questions of ethical and moral considerations, as well as concerns about the toxicological aspects of the presence of human fetal DNA in vaccines. The COG website lists the types of fetal cells lines used in the manufacture of vaccines.

These researchers found that “..rising autistic disorder prevalence is directly related to vaccines manufactured utilizing human fetal cells.” Theresa Deisher Ph.D, lead researcher in this study stated that,“Not only are the human fetal contaminated vaccines associated with autistic disorder throughout the world, but also with epidemic childhood leukemia and lymphomas.”

Sources for vaccine ingredients

Articles listing the ingredients in many of the taxpayer-funded Canadian vaccines can be found in our ‘Specific Vaccines’ section. Vaccine product monographs listing vaccine ingredients can be found here.

Unfortunately, vaccine manufacturers are not required to list every ingredient or trace amounts of ingredients nor all the details about the manufacturing process (which may, as is the case with mercury, leave small but still-significant amounts of harmful substances in the finished product). This Canadian government webpage provides types and contents of licensed vaccines in Canada And this CDC page lists the declared excipients in vaccines licensed in the U.S.

Vaccine Contaminants

This article discusses a recent Italian study which analyzed the contents of 30 vaccines and found multiple dangerous contaminants (including metal toxicants) in every single sample tested – except in one animal vaccine.

Related VCC Pages

Other Chemical Ingredients These include preservatives, disinfectants, antibiotics, stabilizers, etc. some of which may cause allergic reactions or other toxicity. Note also that the vials containing some vaccines are still sealed with latex stoppers which can be allergenic. Related VCC Links Related External Links Licensed Vaccines in Canada & Ingredients Vaccine Excipient & Media […]

Mercury and Thimerosal in Vaccines Thimerosal, a mercury containing preservative which was widely used but later removed from many pharmaceutical products, lingers on in some vaccines including ones injected into some of the most vulnerable recipients – pregnant women, babies, children and seniors. As of 2011, Canadian vaccines which contain thimerosal as a preservative are […]

(intended and not intended) The biological ingredients intentionally included in vaccines are the lab-altered viruses and bacterial toxins or parts of viruses and bacteria which are meant to produce immunity to infectious diseases. Of particular concern are the live-virus vaccines (MMR, chickenpox vaccine, the combined MMR-chickenpox vaccine and the live-virus influenza nasal vaccine). Equally worrisome […]

Aluminum is a commonly used adjuvant, ie: an ingredient used to provoke a sustained immune response. It’s part of the DPT vaccine which was first widely used in the late 1940s and all current vaccines containing any or all of the D (diphtheria), P (pertussis) and T (tetanus) antigens. The hepatitis B and pneumococcal vaccines […]

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Food allergies can arise due to a leaky gut which allows partially-digested food proteins into the bloodstream. A more direct route is via an injection. Related VCC Links Related External Links Institute of Medicine (IOM): Food proteins present in vaccines cause the development of food allergies – “Adverse events on our list thought to […]